Newcastle are unchanged side from the team that beat Crystal Palace at the weekend with Papiss Cisse and Luuk de Jong starting up front.

Newcastle starting XI: : Krul; Yanga-Mbiwa, Williamson, Coloccini (c), Dummett; Sissoko, Anita, Tiote, Gouffran; de Jong, Cisse

Everton make two changes with Gerard Deulofeu and Leon Osman recalled to midfield.

Everton starting XI: Howard, Baines, Distin, Stones, Coleman, Barry, McCarthy, Deulofeu, Barkley, Osman (c), Lukaku.

Defender Vincent Kompany returns from suspension with Edin Dzeko starting on his own up front.

Man City starting XI: Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany (C), Demichelis, Clichy, Yaya Toure, Fernandinho, Nasri, Silva, Navas, Dzeko

Juan Mata, Danny Welbeck and Wayne Rooney start in attack for Manchester United. Rio Ferdinand is back in defence.

Manchester United starting XI: De Gea; Rafael, Ferdinand, Jones, Evra; Carrick, Cleverley, Fellaini; Mata, Welbeck, Rooney

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Manchester United are top of one table this season. David Moyes's side have won 30 points away from home this season - more than any other Premier League side.

They have been sleepwalking at the Theatre of Dreams though, picking up three points for every two games at Old Trafford on average.

Ominously for the hosts City are unbeaten in their last eight away matches, winning six.

BBC Sport chief football writer Phil McNulty at Old Trafford:

"This is the 150th league meeting between Manchester United and Manchester City - and the incentive for David Moyes's side is to inflict damage on their neighbours' title aspirations.

"Old Trafford is quiet at the moment and the atmosphere is low-key but City manager Manuel Pellegrini will want to see proof that the balance of power is swinging back in their favour after they thrashed United 4-1 at Etihad Stadium earlier this season."

Hertha Berlin: Kraft, Pekarík, Van den Bergh, Kobiashvili,, Janker, Brooks, Skjelbred, Hosogai, Ramos, Mukhtar, Schulz. Subs: Ndjeng, Furtado de Araujo, Niemeyer, Holland, Wagner, Gersbeck, Syhre.

Bayern Munich: Neuer, Rafinha, Alaba, Schweinsteiger, Boateng, Dante, Robben, Lahm, Muller, Kroos, Gotze. Subs: Van Buyten, Thiago Alcantara, Ribery, Mandzukic, Shaqiri, Pizarro, Starke.

Referee: Marco Fritz

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Manchester United's Champions League quarter-final opponents Bayern Munich can wrap up the Bundesliga title with a record seven games to spare if they win at Hertha Berlin.

Arjen Robben, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Thomas Muller and Mario Gotze all start for the European champions at the Olympic Stadium as Pep Guardiola looks to secure his third piece of silverware since taking charge of Bayern last summer.

Having clinched the Uefa Super Cup and the Fifa Club World Cup, the 43-year-old Spaniard is seeking to end his first season in charge with an astonishing five trophies, with Bayern also going strong in the German Cup and the Champions League.

Over in Germany, the Bayern Munich steamroller is chugging into life. And the season's first bit of domestic silverware is on the horizon.

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All 24 teams are in action in the Championship - which is entering the final, crucial stretch. There are plenty of key games at both ends of the table tonight, here's what's at stake:

Promotion

Leaders Leicester - whose manager Nigel Pearson has been ill in hospital this weekend - will fancy their chances of staying at least five points clear as they host second-bottom Yeovil. Second-placed Burnley will also bank on three points at home as they host Doncaster. Leicester travel to Burnley on Saturday. Massive.

In the play-off places QPR (fourth) host Wigan (fifth), while Ipswich can give their chances a timely shot in arm by beating third-placed Derby at Portman Road.

Relegation

Are we at 'six-pointer' stage yet? Millwall and Birmingham may think so as they meet at the New Den. Bottom side Barnsley are running out of games and could do without a trip to Reading tonight.

It is a busy night all around the Football League as the scrabble for tickets to the next tier hots up.

The bookies make Manchester City favourites at Old Trafford for the first time since the start of the Premier League.

Roll back fifteen years and the bookies weren't having to worry about those odds.

In 1999 City were battling their way to Division Two play-off glory against Gillingham while United hunted down Treble against Bayern Munich.

So give it another 15 years and, come the business end of the 2028-29 season, what state will Manchester's two big clubs be in?

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The Manchester derby is headlining but there are plenty of sub-plots bubbling away in the Premier League tonight.

Can Arsene Wenger get the Arsenal wagon back on the road after Saturday's 6-0 walloping at the hands of Chelsea? Or might Roberto Martinez's Everton pick off the weakest of the top-four pack?

This is how we are set in the top-flight tonight:

Arsenal v Swansea (19:45 GMT)

Man Utd v Man City (19:45 GMT)

Newcastle v Everton (19:45 GMT)

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Unless you believe reports of Chris Smalling singing "We're Man United and we'll do what we want," while out on a night on the town,, external there have been no such confident noises coming from the United camp ahead of tonight's derby.

Kick-off is a little over 90 minutes away at Old Trafford.

"It was the first time I'd played them after joining City," Fernandinho said as he reflected this week on his side's 4-1 win in September.

"It's a club with a lot of history, with very good players, they were the champions.

"I was surprised at how badly they played that day and how easily we won."

And crucially ahead of tonight's game...

"We will go there expecting to win."

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Fernandinho was expecting more.

Just four games into the Brazilian's Manchester City career, Manchester United crossed town for the derby.

United had won the title by 11 points the previous May, lifted the Community Shield in August and got their Champions League campaign off to a winning start five days before visiting the Etihad Stadium.

But City were 4-0 up and cruising after just 50 minutes.